A day at Hogwarts.

After breakfast, the four of Albert carried their schoolbags to the potions classroom in the basement.To be honest, taking Potions class immediately after eating is not good for the food in your stomach to digest.

"The door isn't open." Fred stretched out his hand to push the door, and found that the door of the Potions classroom was locked. He couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly. It's rare that the Potions professor didn't open the door in advance.

"Have we made a mistake?"

"Wait a minute." Albert stopped them from opening the door without authorization.

After a while, there were more and more students in the corridor, and everyone was waiting outside the Potions classroom for Snape to come and open the door.

A few minutes later, the Gryffindor girls also came over, looked at Albert and teased: "You don't have a prefect badge?"

"forgotten."

"Do you sometimes forget?"

Albert knew that several people were not teasing himself, but the Ravenclaw prefect who wore the prefect badge.

"I think you should wear it all day, it's more dignified, just like Percy, lest people don't know that he is the president of the student union." Fred didn't feel any pressure when he said bad things about Percy, and they obviously all noticed, here Only Selwyn of Ravenclaw wears the prefect badge.

Selwyn looked unhappy, turned around and secretly took off the badge on his chest and stuffed it into his pocket.

Alicia noticed Albert's gaze, shrugged and said, "You didn't see the guy's arrogant look just now."

The whispers around suddenly disappeared, and the long corridor fell into a strange silence. Snape was walking towards this side, his face so gloomy that he was about to drip water.Snape took the key out of his pocket and opened the door to the potions classroom.

"Before I start the class, I must remind you of one thing."

Snape walked quickly to the podium, turned around and scanned everyone with stern eyes, "Next June, you will take the o.w.Ls exam, and then you will prove how much you have learned. .w.Ls can barely 'pass' in the exam, otherwise I will be very angry."

"Of course, after this year, many of you won't be able to take my classes anymore." Snape glanced over the students and pouted slightly, "I only pick the best Students into my N.E.w.Ts Potions class, which means, some of you will have to say goodbye."

"We have another year to go before we can say goodbye," said Snape softly, "so, regardless of whether you plan to take the N.E.W.TS exam or not, I suggest that you all concentrate on studying well. homework, to the high passing level that I require of my o.w.Ls students."

Fred and George were winking at Albert, as if they were celebrating that they would finally not have to see Snape again next term.

Of course, the Weasley brothers are not the only ones who have this idea. As we all know, Snape's Potions class is difficult, and his N. E． w． As long as the students in the Ts potion class achieve excellent grades, the annual N. E． w． Ts Potion classes are usually hard to beat double digits.

"Today, we are going to prepare a potion that often appears in ordinary wizarding level exams: Easement. It can calm down and relieve irritability and anxiety, and it will help relieve your stress before the exam. I have seen many students who can't bear it o.w ．I collapsed due to the pressure of the Ls exam, so I suggest mastering how to configure the palliative, and when necessary, you can give yourself or your classmates a copy."

"Of course, if you are sloppy when you put the ingredients, it may cause the person taking the medicine to fall into a deadly and sometimes irreversible lethargy, so you need to pay extra attention. The ingredients and preparation methods are on the blackboard. You have a Half an hour... let's get started."

After Snape finished speaking, he waved his wand, and the door of the storage cabinet swung open.

The difficulty of palliative is not high, at least in Albert's view.

As long as the ingredients are added to the crucible in strict order and quantity, and the mixture is stirred for a specified number of times, the temperature of the flame must drop to a certain standard when the crucible boils, and it must be kept for a certain period of time before adding the last batch. The toppings are done.

Rigorousness and standards have always been the key factors for successful potion brewing, but for most students, this seems to be difficult to achieve.

When Albert put two drops of hellebore syrup into the cauldron, Snape suddenly appeared behind him and said coldly, "Professor McGonagall should have told you about the Potions Tournament, every weekend Be here at three o'clock in the afternoon."

Albert didn't answer, still focusing on the crucible in front of him.

Snape definitely did it on purpose, if he'd shaken his hands and dripped an extra drop of hellebore syrup, God knows what would have happened to the pot of palliative.

The result was quite satisfactory, a faint, silver-white steam emerged from the cauldron, exactly as Snape had just described.

Albert put half of the medicine samples into a short-necked bottle with a large belly, and marked his name, while the other half was stored in his own medicine.

After doing all this, Albert looked around. Except for him, no one else succeeded. Some of them had some problems with the details, and the color of the potion was not as expected.

"It's a piece of shit!" Lee Jordan stretched his waist as he left the classroom.

"Finally we won't have to see Snape again next semester." Fred was not much better than Lee Jordan, his potion smelled like rotten eggs.

"I'm afraid you will have to take potions class by yourself next semester." Lee Jordan didn't feel sorry at all, he thought maliciously, "I just paid attention to the level of potions in our class, and I doubt that Sne Can Pu's N.E.w.Ts Potions class make up ten students?"

"I think five is very reluctant." George analyzed, "Under normal circumstances, Slytherin and Ravenclaw are more good at potions than ours. Albert, Ravenclaw's Katri Na should be fine at least, whether Shanna can pass the exam is still open to question, and Hufflepuff will come again..."

"Diggory is still very powerful." Albert reminded.

"Well, after counting that guy, we can barely make up four, and there are a few good Slytherins. Do you count on Montague?" George sneered.

"Speaking of which, if you fail to attend the advanced class, does that mean you can graduate early?" Lee Jordan asked suddenly.

"As long as we can successfully open the store, it doesn't matter if we fail the o.w.Ls exam." Fred and George didn't really care much about o.w.Ls. w． Ls exam.

"I think your family will definitely be very dissatisfied with your grades." Albert reminded, "Your summer vacation will be very difficult then."

"What class is this afternoon?" Fred asked, changing the subject.

"Professor of History of Magic and Defense Against the Dark Arts," Albert said.

"I just hope our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is more reliable than Lockhart." George complained.

Last semester, Lockhart was really no ordinary pitfall.

"Professor Lupine should be pretty good. The level of wizards who can use the Patronus Charm is not too low."

"Hopefully I can learn something."

The history of magic in the afternoon was very boring. Professor Binns was talking about the topic of giant wars, but most of the students fell asleep within 10 minutes.

Albert didn't attend the class, but took out another book from his schoolbag to read.

As for the exams and homework, he had already asked Isobel to borrow the history of magic notes in advance. Anyway, Professor Binns always talked about the subject in class, and the notes he made were basically the same.

Defense Against the Dark Arts class has some fun for everyone.

Professor Lupine did not teach the class, but spent a lot of time figuring out what they had learned from the first grade to the fourth grade.

"I am very aware of the situation of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class. You have changed four professors. In this chaotic situation, it is difficult to really learn something." Lupine said softly, "However, don't worry everyone, the situation Not as bad as you think. o. w． Most of the content of the Ls exam is in "Dark Power: Self-Defense Guide". Most of the actual combat assessment content you will face is just to expel some dark creatures. As long as you master the method of fighting them, you don't have to worry too much about failing the exam . "

"Dark creatures, how should we deal with other dark wizards?" Fred raised his hand and asked, "For example, Black who is on the run."

"I think it's hard for you to meet dark wizards, at least you won't meet them before you leave school." Seeing everyone's expectant eyes, Lupine said helplessly, "Ann, I heard Professor McGonagall mention that Professor Lockhart once Taught you the Disarming Charm, Mister Desen, would you mind coming up and showing it?"

Albert was pushed up by a few friends around him.

Professor Lupine waved his wand to make room for both parties.

"How should we defend against most of the spells that other wizards use on us?" Professor Lupine nodded towards Albert and said, "It's time to start."

The tool man Albert raised his wand and used the Disarming Curse on Lupine very cooperatively.Before concentrating on Professor Lupine, the spell was blocked by the opponent's Iron Armor Charm.

Applause immediately sounded in the classroom.

"Very good, very good, Mr. Anderson." Professor Lupine said to everyone: "As you can see, I successfully cast Mr. Anderson's disarming spell. Does anyone know what spell I used?"

"Iron Armor Curse."

"Yes, it is the Iron Armor Charm, and Gryffindor adds ten points." Lupine continued, "The Iron Armor Charm can create a magical barrier that can deflect spells and physical entities, thereby protecting specific people or specific areas. Defensive spells from various spells."

"Spell of the Iron Armor Curse: Armor Protection?."

"Sir, shall we learn the Iron Armor Curse next class?" Someone asked expectantly.

"No."

"Why not teach it? I think the Iron Armor Curse is more useful." Someone asked dissatisfied.

"Because my task now is to let you pass the o.w.ls exam with higher grades as possible." Lupine said gently, "If after teaching the rest of "Dark Power: Self-Defense Guide", there is still Given time, I can teach you some more magic to use, but for now you should be concerned with the o.w.Ls exam."